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Comment by aleksiy123

Today I learned there’s a name for the general version of this idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed_theory

At a certain point in a solution everything you do to optimize (“push”) in one area will cause a negative effect in a different area (“bulge”).

But this is a nice concrete example.

parent aleksiy123 2 months ago

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